That's true, but it isn't as imposing. The advantage of having grey will be that I wont have to paint the bottom, so that I can differentiate top from bottom. I found that the solid blue of the 1400mm corsair made it very hard to see.

If I manage to convince my good lady wife that I should have this....then I intend to seriously look at a " What If " RAAF, SWP White tail scheme.

I am a member of Vintage Wings in Gatineau, who have, restore and fly WWII warbirds, including one done in the scheme of the last Canadian Corsair pilot to die in the war, Lt. Robert Hampton Gray. It's a F4U-1, but I can do a 3 blade for photo op. I also intend to get ground recordings of run up when I get the opportunity and put those into a sound system.
Here it is! http://grayghosts.vintagewings.ca/?page_id=53

+ 1 on that choice Rob. For the sake of accuracy ! The Brits will have the same dilemma as they only had 3 bladers two. That's why I wanted Andy Chen to make one.LOL.
Still, if someone could tell me if there's a suitable 3 blade prop and hub for this one the rest shouldn't be to hard. There will be plenty of guys wanting a spare prop and hub for this plane no doubt.
Would be nice if you could use the LX big B25 prop for example.

+ 1 on that choice Rob. For the sake of accuracy ! The Brits will have the same dilemma as they only had 3 bladers two. That's why I wanted Andy Chen to make one.LOL.
Still, if someone could tell me if there's a suitable 3 blade prop and hub for this one the rest shouldn't be to hard. There will be plenty of guys wanting a spare prop and hub for this plane no doubt.Attachment 5300171
Would be nice if you could use the LX big B25 prop for example.

The LX corsair available from the fruitstand is sold with a big 18 inch 3 blade prop. You can buy it as a spare part.

OK, all this talk about propellers.. so I have made some investigations. That means none of this may be correct but it's a start.
the real corsair has a W/S of 12.49m and a prop 4.04m !
The 1600mm LX prop is 18"
This 1700mm prop is 17" ??
So the LX prop, for this plane, is an improvement if it worked ??
But to be ( oh no ) scale it would want to be 21.65" !!!

I might be wrong and no doubt most think it doesn't matter but that's a HUGE difference.Over 4.5" ..... surely that's not right ?

I think that is correct. I've heard from some of the scale aficionados among us that the FMS props in the 1700 series are a good few inches smaller than "true scale" size. It has to do with the size of the motor needed to swing a 21" prop I believe.

People will say it's impossible to put a scale prop on these planes, but it's not. Just get the kit version (if they offer one) and get a motor and esc big enough to handle the scale prop. I just did to my FW-190 and after todays flights I couldn't be happier staring at a huge prop disk

How come it is nearly impossible to find FMS planes in the US. The only distributor in the US I see is Banana Hobby and they are out of stock on more FMS planes than they have in stock. Does FMS just do low volume production? How come there are not more distributors?
There products are supirior to thier competitors. You would think that they would want to expand thier business.